Explore our efforts below to learn more about the steps we're taking and how you can get involved.

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Websustainability is a serious issue for businesses based in greater des moines (dsm).

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Recent consumer surveys show that 50% of people will pay a premium for sustainable products, while three out of four consumers report they want to do more to reduce their personal emissions.

Des moines residents in single family homes have been able to recycle since 2002.

Webwe have also focused on areas that affect people a little closer to home:

Webone of the ways that des moines is contributing to sustainable business commuting solutions is by making its public transportation system greener.

Webmore recently, principal financial and the city negotiated a sustainability incentive as part of the company's $400 million renovation of three downtown buildings.

Since the task force’s beginning, our work has contributed to:

Normalize the practice of using energy and water benchmarking to identify efficiencies and improve building performance.

Webthe des moines citizen task force on sustainability engages the community and advises the city of des moines toward:

What started out as small green bins where recyclables were separated, quickly moved to single stream large blue cart.

Webdes moines has many strategic efforts in place that deal with sustainability and climate change mitigation.

This has involved taking steps to improve the climate impact of the des moines area regional transit (dart) authority services.

Webwe think it is important that the city of des moines adopt a climate action and resilience plan, and join the increasing number of communities who are taking action to mitigate and adapt to its effects.

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